Hundreds of workers in Cilacap oppose foreign employees. It would be better if The Jakarta Post added more info about what happened in Cilacap and why they oppose foreign workers.

Cilacap workers have an issue with the influx of Chinese workers, which are mostly rank and file workers, the jobs that many Indonesian can do.  

And for the same job description the Chinese workers are paid 10 times higher than the Indonesians.

Many labor organizations suspect that they have violated labor laws and they are manipulating the amount of money they say they are investing in Indonesia, because they ship back the money to China through these rank and file workers.

The regulation that requires foreign workers to speak Bahasa Indonesia is ridiculous, but the local workers are desperate people, they are asking for protection to secure low-level jobs for them and the government should consider this seriously.

Have you not heard that many Indonesian professionals with overseas experience are asking for a level playing field in Indonesia?

This is because most owners of companies in Indonesia are ridiculous people. We can spend many years overseas as respected professionals but Indonesian companies will consider us local experts with local salaries and these companies will choose to pay 10 times more for rookie expatriates with little knowledge and experience, rather than proven Indonesian professionals with world experience.

There are two types of expats in this country, ones with real professional skills and the others with no real skills, and company owners cannot differentiate between these two. In my experience there are many expats in Indonesia with little to offer and many Indonesians who can perform better if given a level playing field.

AG
Jakarta

Here are the realities, those workers who are screaming the loudest do not have the qualifications needed to replace foreign workers. While some foreign workers may be lacking Indonesian language skills, I am sure some of those local workers are not any better.

Companies are not stupid. When local talents is available I am sure companies will not hire foreign workers as they cost more and lack local knowledge. If local workers are smart, let those companies hire foreign workers and then motivate themselves to learn as much and as fast as possible from those foreign workers so that they can replace them.

In reality, many local workers are lazy, not qualified, hiding behind their religion to justify sleeping and taking longer breaks, full of self loathing and non-ethical, lacking education and training. Please note '€œmany'€ does not mean all.

Bilbobagging
Jakarta

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